Palo Alto Firewall Engineer
Job Number: 26-01782
Job Number: 26-01782
Use your skills where innovative technology solutions begin. ECLARO is looking for a Palo Alto Firewall Engineer for our client in New Berlin, CT.
ECLARO’s client is a leading technology solutions provider, collaborating with customers to manage their needs and achieve success in their business goals. If you’re up to the challenge, then take a chance at this rewarding opportunity!
Position Overview:
- Experienced Palo Alto Firewall Engineer to provide part-time remote engineering support for a production network environment.
- This is a highly hands-on role focused on making configuration changes and updates to physical Palo Alto firewall appliances.
- The position will average approximately 25 hours per week, with flexibility required for occasional weekend and after-hours maintenance windows.
- Strong Palo Alto engineer who can independently execute approved changes, troubleshoot issues, validate configurations, and document work with minimal supervision.
- Hands-on Palo Alto expert, not simply a security architect.
- Should be comfortable getting into the firewall configuration, making production changes, validating the results, troubleshooting when something doesn't work as expected, and documenting exactly what was done.
Responsibilities:
- Perform hands-on configuration changes and updates on physical Palo Alto Networks firewalls.
- Implement approved firewall policy, NAT, routing, VPN and security configuration changes.
- Manage and modify security policies, NAT policies, objects, zones and interfaces.
- Support firewall upgrades, configuration changes, maintenance and hardware-related activities.
- Validate firewall changes and confirm connectivity and security functionality following implementation.
- Troubleshoot firewall, routing, VPN and connectivity issues.
- Review existing configurations and recommend appropriate improvements or remediation.
- Maintain accurate firewall configurations, diagrams, change records and technical documentation.
- Follow established change-management, maintenance-window and rollback procedures.
- Coordinate with network, security and infrastructure teams during planned changes.
- Participate in occasional after-hours and weekend maintenance windows when required.
- Respond to production issues and provide timely troubleshooting support.
- Ensure changes follow security standards and established operational procedures.
Required Qualifications:
- 3+ years of hands-on network security/firewall engineering experience.
- Strong production experience with Palo Alto Networks firewalls.
- Experience making configuration changes directly on physical Palo Alto appliances.
- Strong knowledge of PAN-OS, security policies, NAT, routing, zones and interfaces.
- Experience with IPsec/GlobalProtect VPNs and troubleshooting.
- Strong understanding of TCP/IP, routing, switching and network security.
- Experience with firewall upgrades, maintenance and configuration management.
- Ability to work independently and execute changes accurately with minimal supervision.
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
- Willingness to support occasional weekend and after-hours maintenance windows.
- Palo Alto: PAN-OS, PA-Series firewalls, Panorama, HA
- Security: Security Policies, NAT, App-ID, User-ID, URL Filtering, SSL Decryption
- Networking: TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, VLANs, routing, segmentation
- VPN: GlobalProtect, IPsec, SSL VPN
- Operations: Change Management, maintenance windows, configuration backup/restore, logging and monitoring
Preferred Qualifications:
- PCNSE or Palo Alto Networks certification.
- Experience with Palo Alto Panorama.
- Experience supporting HA firewall pairs and failover environments.
- Experience with BGP, OSPF and advanced routing.
- Experience with GlobalProtect.
- Experience with network segmentation and Zero Trust security architectures.
- Experience working in large enterprise environments.
- Familiarity with ITIL/change-management processes.
If hired, you will enjoy the following ECLARO Benefits:
- 401k Retirement Savings Plan administered by Merrill Lynch
- Commuter Check Pretax Commuter Benefits
- Eligibility to purchase Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance through ECLARO
If interested, you may contact:
Lisa Pelletier
Lisa.Pelletier@eclaro.com
646-695-2949
Lisa Pelletier | LinkedIn
Equal Opportunity Employer: ECLARO values diversity and does not discriminate based on Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status, in compliance with all applicable laws.
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